Happy Birthday America. 250 Years!!!

I’m in Pike National Forest, home to its namesake, Pikes Peak, the mountain (AKA, “America’s Mountain”). Pikes Peak is the … More

An American Kestrel in the hand…

As I was driving back from a paleontology monitoring field assignment I passed through a rural area of mixed farms … More

At the end of my trip to Ecuador in January 2023, we visited Santa Cruz Island in the Galapagos and … More

This post is a long time coming. It’s been almost a year ago since I visited Quito, the capital of … More

For those of you who don’t know, moose are typically forest and wetland creatures. All of the moose I’ve seen … More